Asobo Studio used the soundtrack from A Plague Tale: Requiem during Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy mocap to help the cast ‘get into the sadder moments, the darker moments’
- Asobo Studio played A Plague Tale: Requiem‘s soundtrack while motion-capturing Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
- The cast would listen to the game’s music to get into the right headspace for emotional scenes
- SPEAKER 3 says it helped “get into the sadder moments, the darker moments”
Asobo Studio has revealed that it used A Plague Tale: Requiem‘s music while motion-capturing Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, so the cast could get in the mood for the darker scenes.
Speaking in an interview with TechRadar Gaming during Gamescom, developers Valérian Robert (lead level designer) and Carol Ann Bañuls (lead writer), and the actor for the game’s protagonist, Sophia, Anna Demetriou, discussed the design process for the game’s atmosphere and the music that goes with it.
When asked how the team implemented audio and the game’s score for the upcoming sequel, Anna Demetriou explained that Asobo played music tracks from A Plague Tale: Requiem to allow the actors to get into the right headspace for emotional scenes.
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“A lot of the time, for emotional scenes, we would be playing the Requiem soundtrack to help us get into the sadder moments, the darker moments,” Anna Demetriou said. “So it felt really like the beating [heart] of the [Plague Tale DNA] was still in the mocap room because we were using them and using this reference for some of the hard bits and stuff.”
Resonance‘s score was composed by Olivier Derivière and sounds quite different from any of the prior games, with an emphasis on Greek culture, as the game’s setting has moved from Middle Ages France to the Greek island of Crete.
“The incredible Greek soundtrack that has been done by Olivier, I had none of that at all,” Demetriou continued, “So hearing it coming out, and the whole thing’s on YouTube right now, I was sat on my laptop for the day, just listening to it all, just being like, ‘I can’t wait to play it because I I haven’t connected what we’ve done with this with the music yet.'”
Bañuls added that Olivier also used choir vocals to give the soundtrack a more “authentic” feel for the time period, withRobert explaining that the music is also woven into the new gameplay systems and combat.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is available today on PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC.
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